The recent attacks on expatriate hawkers, by their South African counterparts in the streets of Johannesburg, has revealed the vicious xenophobia which lies under the surface of our "rainbow" nation. According to the South African street traders, "illegal" foreigners pose unfair competition to their trade, in an economically adverse climate and should be deported. Migration has been with us for...

Figure 1 shows the front side of the booth on the very last day, August 13, 2015, when Augustus Jayaraj joined Cheon-Sig Lee and Sarjinder Singh with 40 elephants. There were already 100 monkeys of different colors, 100 female giraffes, 100 male giraffes, and 100 spidermen. There were also three dozen flashing balls and 100 tiny bears. For the first three days, these toys were given freely to t...

In this foreword, we attempt to recall some memories annotated with appropriate photographs from the booth STAT-HAWKERS at the Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM)-2013 held in Montreal, Canada during August 3–8, 2013. There were three main advertising posters: one for the book, “Thinking Statistically: Elephants Go to School”; second for the monograph, “Advanced Sampling Theory with Applications: H...